June 2026 - Feature Release - The Horde Edition

Another year is almost halfway done and here I am yet again with another Horde feature. As my association with death metal doesn't run as deep as some other prime movers on the site, I don't feel I can bring the same depth of releases to the clan as I can some of my others and I struggle to find releases I personally love that few others on the site are familiar with. That said, a band I do love who seem to have been virtually ignored so far are the rather excellent Chicago blackened death metallers Immortal Bird. So here for your consideration is their second full-length, 2015's "Empress/Abscess". I have a short review up that I wrote at the time of release, but intend to fully revisit it and do a proper job some time during the next month.

Anyway, please let us know what you think of it either in a comment on this thread or even as a full review if you prefer.

https://metal.academy/releases/12485